Italian language course: Courses at DU

Sonia Sarkar
[ 28 Jul, 2006 0346hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

NEW DELHI: What the most sought-after courses — B Com (H) or economics (H) cannot offer you, a BA (H) in Spanish and Italian can. Well, it can at least fetch you a Rs 4.78-lakh per-annum package and a prestigious position in an IT firm.

The course is being offered to a DU student this year, thus attracting more foreign language aspirants especially the 90 percenters in the department of German and Romance Studies, which has already overshot its admissions.

Japanese and Chinese too are the hot favourites this season as these languages can also offer you a handsome salary of Rs 30,000-35,000 per month as language interpreters and translators in MNCs.

"We have got a large number of enrolments in Italian language course followed by Spanish for the forthcoming academic year. Even though we have 25 seats allotted for each language, we have overshot admissions for these two.

And it is no more a popular course only among the low percenters as most of the applicants have scored 90 and above in the Class XII exams," said Satvir Solanki, an official at the department of Germanic and Romance Studies (GRS), DU, which also offers BA (H) courses in French and German, which are comparatively less popular among the admission-seekers.

He added: "Students in BA (H) in Italian are getting pricey offers as the highest pay package of Rs 4.78 per annum has been offered by Wipro this year and similar offers from other reputed IT firms like Infosys and HP with a salary package of Rs 3.8-4.2 lakh per annum for these two languages have flooded the department."

Even though the East-Asian language have not scored over the two European ones the popularity of Japanese is no less in campus as handsome packages for the posts of junior executives and translators are in plenty for students pursuing it.

"The highest offer was Rs 35,000 per month from Golman Sachs to a student pursuing the Japanese language, this year. Even IT firms like Oracle, Satyam, TCS and companies who deal in finance like American Express have also come up with good offers," said Rajiv Ranjan, senior lecturer and placement co-ordinator, department of East Asian Studies, DU.

The department, though, doesn't offer three-year BA (H) in foreign languages but conducts part-time courses. "Our students are mostly BA or B Com or IT graduates who like to pursue an additional diploma in foreign language.

Thus the companies also look at the dual degrees while hiring them," Ranjan added. Besides a white collar job in the MNCs, such students are also working as tourist guides and the income here is no less.

"Travel agents contact us guiding foreigners. We get around Rs 1,000 per day for a group of five while it is Rs 1,500-2,000 per day for a bigger group.

For a trip to Agra or Jaipur, we charge around Rs 2,500 per day," said Jatin Kapur , a second-year student in Chinese language.

Italian language course: UNIVERSITY FOR FOREIGNERS: HONORARY DEGREE FOR MICHAELLE JEAN

UNIVERSITY FOR FOREIGNERS: HONORARY DEGREE FOR MICHAELLE JEAN
(AGI) - Perugia, July 20 - Michaelle Jean, Head of State of Canada, well-known journalist, ex-student of the University for Foreigners, receives the honorary degree in "Communication systems in international relations" tomorrow in Perugia. The recognition, on the occasion of the university's 80th anniversary and the inauguration of the new academic year, will be awarded by rector Stefania Giannini. President of the language faculty Roberto Fedi will give a presentation on the reasons of handing the honorary degree to Michaelle Jean. Jean came to Perugia in 1982 to further improve her knowledge of the Italian language course, continuing her studies of Italian in Florence and the University Cattolica of Milan. From 1982 to 1984 she taught Italian at the University of Montreal. She has been Head of State of Canada for seven years now. Michaelle Jean has come to Perugia together with many other ex-students of the University for Foreigners for a gathering that will take place on July 22 and 23. On the 22th, during the Testimony of the ex-students, the Head of State will give a speech.
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Italian language course: SA's BIG WEDDING

By Adelaide (Confidential)
15jul06
HE may be the South Australian Premier, but this afternoon he is simply Mike, who is marrying his long-term partner Sasha. While there will be dignitaries and celebrities galore in the audience, there will be no standing on ceremony.

"They'll be just Mike and Sasha," said a friend, who did not wish to be identified.

"It's all about them as a couple, not him as the Premier."

Simple, elegant and intimate are the overriding themes of the nuptials.

Sasha has been described as the perfect bride by everyone contacted by (Confidential).

"If only everyone was like her," says National Wine Centre sales and marketing manager Susan Hall.

It seems some are trying to be just like her, and her new hubby - not only has the Wine Centre seen increased inquiries from engaged couples, but some have even asked to have the same menu as Mike and Sasha.

Sasha is intent on making the wedding and reception an intimate affair. They will dance a bridal waltz, but Sasha has kept her song of choice secret from her new hubby.

There will be five speeches at the reception - one from Mike's son and groomsman David, one each from the newlyweds, one from Sasha's sister and maid-of-honour Nadia Carruozzo, and then another from her long-time friend, Brigitte Conway.

Oddly, the vice regal notes which will appear in Monday's Advertiser, names the bride as "Patrizia Sasha Carruozzo" - seems the lass goes by her middle name.

Simple ceremony - to beat the rain

NO time for a quick nap during the nuptials, the ceremony will only go for 15 minutes. A celebrant will conduct the service which will be simple and to the point, though security guards will be on hand to keep out any unwanted well-wishers.

Because of the likelihood of rain, a purpose-built marquee will provide cover for guests.

The new husband and wife will pose for photos for the media with their wedding party.

Botanic Garden marketing manager Andrew Beare says the pair paid the usual $470 to secure a ceremony spot.

"Even though we've tried to offer additional assistance, they have been most insistent that they be treated like anyone else," Andrew says.

As for the rings that will be a dazzling part of the nuptials?

Sasha already has a diamond engagement ring from Gerard McCabe Jewellers, which she picked out herself last July. (The Adelaide Arcade store also was behind the ring for Adelaide MP Chloe Fox, who is set to wed fellow MP Leon Bignell.)

And the actual wedding rings?

Grahams Jewellers executive director Emma Lardner says any ring purchases are confidential, but hinted Sasha has tried one on at the Rundle Mall store.

Gang of four

THE bridal party will consist of just four people. Sasha will be flanked by her sister, Nadia, as maid of honour, and Mike's 16-year-old daughter, Eleanor, as bridesmaid. The groomsmen will comprise Mike's brother, PR whiz Chris Rann, as the best man, along with Mike's 21-year-old son, David.

What to buy a Premier and his new bride...

WHAT to buy the couple who appears to have everything? The nation's Premiers have chipped for a Tasmanian art sculpture. There is no bridal registry, so some suggestions: an intensive WEA Italian language course for Mike or, matching bikes so the Norwood-based pair, can join MP Vini Ciccarello on her runs down The Parade.

Now here's a true A List

THE guest list reads like a who's who. Invitees from the political world include Treasurer Kevin Foley and girlfriend Emma Forster. Friends and family will include Urban Myth Theatre of Youth general manager Jo Coventry. Tony Lewis is the celebrity snapper.

Romantic getaway on the Adriatic

MIKE and Sasha are set to embark on a three-week European vacation from July 22 to August 10. The romantic getaway will encompass Puglia on the Adriatic Coast in southern Italy, where Sasha's family hails from. (Bari is the capital of the region.) So it will be back to work for a week for Mike post-wedding, before the honeymoon begins . . .

Sasha in charge of the food

THE bride took charge of this area - food is very important to Italians, but it's nothing extravagant. For entree, guests will choose between soup or a smoked salmon dish.

For main course, guests will be presented with three choices - chicken, beef or salmon. Desert is a winter pudding. For their wedding cake, the couple turned to family and friends for help. In keeping with the SA theme, wines from the Barossa Valley and Adelaide Hills will be served.

Flowers are top secret

ISIS Flowers is in charge. Sasha is understood to be a regular at the Norwood store. Owner Maria Vozzo says she is unable to comment on the bride's choices, but Holly Jamieson of Lotus Flowers says simplicity and femininity are the big trends.

250 of their best friends

THE Busby Hall of the National Wine Centre will be set for 250 guests.

There is no colour scheme and the venue will be elegant and stylish - "no tackiness" says one source.

Coincidentally, Mike and Sasha booked the venue exactly a year ago, on July 15, 2005.

Centre sales and marketing manager Susan Hall says Sasha is "very nice - no Bridezilla".

The couple will provide the wines but the meal package is about $80 per guest. Whipping out the (Confidential) calculator, that's $20,000 on the food. The venue is booked from 6pm-midnight but the party is unlikely to be kicked out.

In keeping with the elegance of the event, guests will not receive any bonbonnieres.

Sleek music

A VARIETY of music will be played at the reception by etypejazz.

The ensemble's five members are favourites of Mike in particular, who has seen them play at many functions.

He particularly gets on with saxophonist Beth Lyon, who is from the same nook of England as Mike (Sidcup in Kent).

"We have a bit of a laugh about it," Beth says. She reckons it was nice to be asked to play at the Premier's nuptials but "every wedding is special".

Good point.

The dance floor should be packed by dessert time.

Italian language course: Tarot News, September 2004

Italian Tarocchi: Tarot cards have their origin in Italy as part of the great cultural achievements of renaissance in 15th century. Modern Tarot owes its strong development the great divinatory interests in the U.S., easily it is overlooked, that Tarocchi are in Italy a traditional object for art research and well-established iconography. The local interests are celebrated and manifested by many great events, from which the most noteworthy of the recent past might have been the exhibitions held at the Este Castle of Ferrara (from December 1987 to February 1988), at the National Museum of Castel S. Angelo (Rome, December 1994), at the City Archeological Museum of Bologna (December 1995) and at the Barolo Palace of Turin (April 1997).

In the background of this high-level Italian activities is the work of Andrea Vitali with his Associazione Culturale Le Tarot, in close alliance with the Italian Tarot author Giordano Berti with his Istituto Graf., known from his cooperation with Tarot producer Lo Scarabeo. At the index-page of Associatione Le Tarot is an extended and impressive composition of the organised events, which are not limited to the theme Tarocchi alone, but also include other topics of renaissance culture and art.

In our communication Andrea Vitali described his Tarocchi exhibition and his next intentions, which aim to make it possible to see the collected objects outside of Italy:
"Our exhibition is not simply an exhibition of cards, in the sense of only a presentation of tarot decks. It is an exhibition of the symbolic and iconographic universe of tarots, taking account of the links they have with the mysticism, theology, cosmology and the philosophical currents which inform the iconographic variants. It is all illustrated by pictures, old books and documents. The exhibition thus offers different levels of reading, from the harmony of the medieval world to the decorative arcanes of hermetic thought, from game to magic and thus what lies behind.

When I affirm that our exhibition is one of the most important ever organised, I am referring as much to its size as to the quality of its content, which presents the philosophic currents that inform the iconographic variants of the tarot and their symbolic significance. It is probably the only exhibition with such a vision. The public is extremely interested in it and the success of the exhibition encountered in Italy is the proof. In some cases research into the artistic patrimony, religious or secular, the paintings, frescoes or other things, of the town holding the exhibition have been undertaken, and their links with the tarots have been brought into the light.

It is to be hoped that a large exhibition could be organised in an important place, and I have good reason to think that it will see the day, like we have done in Italy. The exhibition could become traveling, to be held in towns of smaller importance, in view of the interest they would show or because there were tarot card makers there, or also because there are works of art there related to the theme. And without excluding for all that that it might be a case of a simple touristic or cultural event".


Future expositions are actually in preparation in Rome and Bologna.


Andrea Vitali has published in Italian language in the time between 1987 and 1994 various articles to specific Tarot cards. "The cards with which I am concerned are those which necessitate a very attentive iconological analysis, being the Fou, Pendu, Temperance (in particular the Alessandro Sforza tarots), the Tour, the Stars, the Moon, the Sun and the World." The articles contain very nice picture material, often enough otherwise unknown.
Generously Andrea Vitali has given the allowance to present two of them at pages of Trionfi.com, it is their first appearance in English language. Additionally Andrea has offered further articles in the future for our iconographical section, where they are included to our collection to the same theme with articles from Bob O'Neill, Ross Gregory Caldwell, Tom Tadfor Little and Michael J. Hurst.


Andrea Vitali: The Hanged Man
Andrea Vitali: The Tower

Alain Bougearel, who is familiar with Andrea Vitali's work, commented in "Origines et histoire du tarot" published in 1997 :
"Comme le souligne le spécialiste italien de l'iconographie historique du Tarot, Andrea Vitali, les conceptions éthiques et mystiques du Tarot évoqueraient de façon pédagogique les Triomphes de Pétrarque "décrivant les forces fondamentales qui... gouvernaient l'humanité en fonction d'une hiérarchie bien établie". "A ma connaissance, Andrea Vitali est, de tous les tarologues contemporains, le médiéviste le plus pertinent.
Il voit les 22 "sujets allégoriques" structurés selon une logique ascentionnelle proche des conceptions aristotéliciennes du Cosmos"

Italian language course: New rules for foreign Oscars

Associated Press
Jul. 7, 2006 12:00 AM

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has changed the way it chooses nominees for best foreign-language film and eliminated a rule requiring entries to be in the official language of the submitting country.

The academy's governors approved a new process in judging foreign-language films, allowing New York-based academy members to participate in the selection for the first time, according to a statement last Friday.

A shortlist of films from nine countries will be chosen by the same Los Angeles-based screening committee that has traditionally viewed the approximately 60 submissions. That shortlist will be screened by a second committee, made up of 10 randomly selected members of the original committee, 10 LA-based members not on the original committee and 10 New York-area members. That group will view the shortlisted films and select nominees from that field. advertisement


In another change, entries submitted in the category no longer must be in the official language of the submitting country. As long as the predominant language isn't English, a picture from any country may be in any language or combination of languages.

Last year, Italy's initial selection, Private, directed and written by Saverio Costanzo, was ruled ineligible because its dialogue was mostly in Arabic and Hebrew. The film is about a Palestinian family whose home gets taken over by Israeli soldiers.

Academy executive director Bruce Davis said Private qualified for the foreign language film category "in every other way except one: there was no Italian language in it."

"The rules clearly prohibited that, but the situation didn't seem fair to us," Davis said. "So if the Taiwanese want to send us a picture with exclusively Portuguese dialogue this year, we're ready for them."

Academy Award nominations will be announced in January. The 79th Annual Academy Awards will be presented Feb. 25, 2007.


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Italian language course: News for Arab Countries

FOREIGNERS' UNIVERSITY FOR AFRICA AND ALUMNI REUNION

(AGI) - Perugia, Jul 1 - As the three days of the conference for Italian cultural institute directors come to an end with the round table on "Search for synergies for a new role of the Italian language in the globalised world: parts meet" to be held tomorrow July 2, (chaired by Gherardo La Francesca, director general for the promotion and cooperation of MAE, coordinated by Beppe Severgnini from Corriere della Sera,) the Foreigners' University celebrates its 80th birthday with a very busy July. Thursday 6 and Friday 7, there will be a reunion for the university's alumni for cooperation on the topic of "FU for Africa." There will be two days for debates: participants will include Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, Mali Minister of Culture Cheick Oumar Sissoko, the ambassador of Gabon to Italy, as well as other celebrities, with Flavio Lotti for the national coordination of local entities for peace and human rights. There will be two sessions, "Cooperation for Italy-Africa cultural exchanges" and "Africa Italy, cooperation and development projects". In the second part of the day, Gallenga director Stefania Giannini and Massimo Caneva from the DGCS coordination and communication service for university cooperation for the Foreign Ministry, will moderate the debate between the rectors of LUMSA University Giuseppe Dalla Torre, Rome's Third University Guido Fabiani and the University of Siena Silvano Focardi. There will be a great meeting for youth, with a concert to be held in Piazza IV Novembre. Finally, on Friday there will be the final session with the speech of minister plenipotentiary, director general of cooperation and development Giuseppe Deodato. Another important date for the Gallenga will be held towards the end of July, when the alumni association will hold its first "ex student" reunion in the historic Palazzo Gallenga. There will be numerous people from abroad, from European countries and other countries, with important government officials who were once language and culture students who then kept strong ties with the university, the Umbrian traditions, which made the Foreigners' University an Ambassador of the World. (AGI) .
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